What piqued my interest was a dialogue blurb in an old "House of Cards" episode. The Constance Zimmer journalist character (Janine Skorsky) is somehow teaching a class on political reporting and she defends HW's scanner problem as an "urban legend".
Clearly, this video shows it was not an urban myth.
Why this lib-produced show would take so much screentime to defend HW is as strange as when HBO produced a loving documentary on HW Bush just two months after they premiered GAME CHANGE.
25 years old. Why does it matter and what is your intent in posting?
Actually it was typical selective editing. Bush was discussing his amazement at a new technology generation of scanners that had the ability to “fix” scuffed or torn bar codes and accurately scan them.
The media edited that part out to show him as an elitist snob.
Andrew Rosenthal of The New York Times hadn’t even been present at the grocers’ convention. He based his article on a two-paragraph report filed by the lone pool newspaperman allowed to cover the event, Gregg McDonald of the Houston Chronicle, who merely wrote that Bush had a “look of wonder” on his face and didn’t find the event significant enough to mention in his own story.Moreover, Bush had good reason to express wonder: He wasn’t being shown then-standard scanner technology, but a new type of scanner that could weigh groceries and read mangled and torn bar codes.
http://www.mrc.org/articles/great-george-bush-sr-grocery-scanner-urban-legend-lives
Did the clip show that it was recorded at an industry trade show where they were demonstrating the latest advances in scanner technology?
Well, I spent a lot of time pushing a cart through the commissary on Aberdeen Proving Ground in the 1980s. We had the old, manual NCR cash registers.
After you’ve solved this mystery, could you send me the location of the Lost Dutchman Mine.
Tool.
Bush was marveling at an advanced generation scanner. Did you report Hillary doesn’t drive?
Strange post, even if it was about Clinton.
That’s petty.
Thank God we finally have a SMART GUY, Barack H Obama to really really screw things up
Let me know when Hitlery learns to pump her own gas.
Any trip to the self checkout lane will show many people still mesmerized by scanners.
Because Cankles hasn’t driven her own car in 30 years. Let alone shopped or cooked for herself.
Hey, did you hear about how Vice President Quayle wished he could speak Latin because he was going to Latin America?
Sheesh.....Republicans are SOOOO dumb!!
HUH
And on another note, the citizens of America discover that Obama is an America hating commie.
This was a new type of scanner that would read less then perfect bar codes. Very new technology at the time.
Sorry, but you are pushing a myth from a perspective of ignorance.
Hillary, by her own admission, has not driven a car or carried actual cash in twenty-five years. What is your point?
I don't know who the producers are, but the show itself doesn't promote liberal bias. It shows both parties as phony and corrupt, with the worst scumbag of the bunch being a Democrat. In other words it's a pretty accurate portrayal of DC politics. The West Wing it ain't.
You failed.